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More than two Hard Drives??
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| Carlos C 2004-12-27, 5:45 pm |
| Can I install more than two hard drives in my PC? I just bought a 120 gig HD
and would like to add it to my PC. However, I already have two and the cable
coming from the IDE connector does not have another socket for the third
one. Can I add more than two HD to my PC? If so, I would appreciate your
help for how to get accomplish this.
Thanks in advance
Carlos
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| Carlos, I installed rails or tracks in my computer. They are cheap,
easy to install and you can use any number of hard drives you desire
by merely sliding them in and out on the rails of your computer.
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:26:41 -0500, "Carlos C"
<ccausillas@comcast.net> wrote:
>Can I install more than two hard drives in my PC? I just bought a 120 gig HD
>and would like to add it to my PC. However, I already have two and the cable
>coming from the IDE connector does not have another socket for the third
>one. Can I add more than two HD to my PC? If so, I would appreciate your
>help for how to get accomplish this.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Carlos
>
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| Howard Kaikow 2004-12-27, 5:45 pm |
| "Carlos C" <ccausillas@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:yfCdnfkkr_4gqk3cRVn-tQ@comcast.com...
> Can I install more than two hard drives in my PC? I just bought a 120 gig
HD
> and would like to add it to my PC. However, I already have two and the
cable
> coming from the IDE connector does not have another socket for the third
> one. Can I add more than two HD to my PC? If so, I would appreciate your
> help for how to get accomplish this.
You will need to purchase an ATAPI card, assumiing that you have a free card
slot.
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| Bob Willard 2004-12-28, 7:45 am |
| Carlos C wrote:
> Can I install more than two hard drives in my PC? I just bought a 120 gig HD
> and would like to add it to my PC. However, I already have two and the cable
> coming from the IDE connector does not have another socket for the third
> one. Can I add more than two HD to my PC? If so, I would appreciate your
> help for how to get accomplish this.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Carlos
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>
Many MBs have two IDE connectors. If yours does, just add an IDE cable --
you can have two HDs per IDE cable. If not, buy a PCI-IDE adapter card.
You also need somplace in your PC box to house that 3rd HD, and you need
a power cable from the PS to that HD or a power Y-cable.
All flavors of WinXP, W9x, and W3x support way more than 2 HDs.
--
Cheers, Bob
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